Narpa Grammar, Dictionary, and Texts

该项目的目的是收集关于Narpa语言的数据，主要研究者将使用这些数据来准备出版语法，词典和文本集。那尔巴是藏缅语Bodic分支中Tamangic族的一员。在尼泊尔的马南地区，大约有800人使用这种语言。虽然语言仍然是两个村庄的主要交流媒介，但人口规模小，人民相对贫困，以及他们使用国语尼泊尔语的双语，所有这些都表明这种语言可能很快就会停止使用。除了几个简短的单词列表外，目前还没有关于Narpa语言的公开文档。 语法将在一个相对非理论的描述性框架中产生，以便对汉藏学家，人类学家和各种理论信仰的普通语言学家发挥最大效用。语法和字典将包含丰富的插图，从两个引发和文本材料。这些文本将被选择来举例说明几种话语类型和各种文化情境，并附有逐个词素的注释以及地道英语的翻译。所有三个组成部分 语法、词典、课文 将相互关联。

The aim of this project is to collect data on the Narpa language, data that will be used by the Principal Investigator to prepare for publication a grammar, dictionary, and a collection of texts. Narpa is a member of the Tamangic group within the Bodic branch of Tibeto-Burman. It is spoken in the Manang District of Nepal by about 800 people. While the language is still the principal medium of communication in two villages, the small size of the population, the relative poverty of the people, and their bilingualism in Nepali, the national language, all point to the fact that the language could cease to be spoken rather quickly. A couple of short word lists apart, there currently is no published documentation on the Narpa language. The grammar will be produced in a relatively non-theoretical, descriptive framework so as to be of maximum utility to Sino-Tibetanists, anthropologists, and general linguists of various theoretical persuasions. The grammar and dictionary will contain copious illustrations from both elicited and textual material. The texts will be chosen to exemplify several discourse types and a variety of cultural situations, and will be accompanied by morpheme-by-morpheme glosses as well as translations into idiomatic English. All three components grammar, dictionary, texts will be keyed to each other.